Thoughts on Chinese cabinet style alternative incubators with roller type turner from Aliexpress to be used with large emu and possibly ostrich eggs.

[lost-duckling]

Does anyone have experience with or advice on to give regarding any of these incubator types. Any other comments or thoughts would be appreciated also. I dont need something huge just big enough to fit a fair amount of ratite eggs in, I wont be doing mass hatches of smaller birds, no more than 100 quail 75 chickens or 50 Muscovy ducks. My thoughts are below in bullet point style as that is how my brain processes the world.

• perhaps this rolling design is better since it is more natural. also seemingly required for emu eggs.
• many of these have a 12 volt power option which would be good since i have had power outages every time but once that I have tried to hatch eggs.
• some have drawers instead of doors so less heat is lost when opened.
• I wont have to get different sized trays for each egg type and when i need to put large eggs (emu) i can just take out some of the above rollers.
• for use with normal duck or chicken eggs theses seem far more space efficient.

1. https://www.aliexpress.us/item/3256804445373413.html
2. https://www.aliexpress.us/item/3256804446675719.html
   1. for this type my concern is sub par humidity tank so i would also get an auxiliary water supply.
3. https://www.aliexpress.us/item/3256804448867577.html?
   1. this one seems to have unrealistically cheap shipping and i am aware the shipping would be more like 400.
4. https://www.aliexpress.us/item/3256804445161001.html
   1. other than the low capacity this ranks rather high in my opinion.
5. https://www.aliexpress.us/item/3256804445251727.html
   1. see concern for #2 along with low heat retention material.
6. https://www.aliexpress.us/item/3256803510281567.html?

 

[casportpony]

Did you decide to get one?

 

[gimmie birdies]

Not that type, but I had bought a yellow top Chinese incubator, it was junk!

These bubble ones are junk also, but I would still play with them.

The bubble one only holds 3 chicken eggs, and the heat is not even so the middle one would get all the heat. If I were to have one of these again what I would do different is put them in an open box of this size to hatch. I would still like to play with this incubator, but would not put much faith in it.